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Chapter 1: Orientation: Basic Terms and Concepts Part I: Social-Psychology and Social Structure as Ways of Understanding Majority-Minority Relations Chapter 2: Prejudice: Its Forms and Causes Chapter 3: Reducing Prejudice: How Achievable? How Important? Chapter 4: Macro-Sociological Perspectives: The Order and Conflict Models Part II: The Historical Roots of Todays Intergroup Inequality and Majority-Minority Relations Chapter 5: Origins and Causes of Ethnic Inequality Chapter 6: Changing Patterns of Majority-Minority Relations in the United States Chapter 7: Minority Group Movements and Their Impact on Society Chapter 8: Changing Values, Goals, and Models: New Thinking on Assimilation, Pluralism, and Separatism Chapter 9: Cross-Cultural Studies of Majority-Minority Relations Part III: Majority-Minority Relations in America Today: The Role of Institutional Discrimination Chapter 10: The Status of Majority and Minority Groups in the United States Today Chapter 11: The Economic and Health Care Systems and Minority Groups in America Chapter 12: Living Apart: Housing Segregation in America Chapter 13: The American Political and Legal System and Majority-Minority Relations Chapter 14: Education and American Minority Groups Part IV: Current and Future Issues in Majority-Minority Relations Chapter 15: Current Trends in Majority-Minority Relations Chapter 16: Current Debates: Affirmative Action, Immigration, and Race Versus Class